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Tory Lanez Charts 2nd Album, But Adele's No. 1 For 4th Week

Adele’s 30 spends its fourth straight week at the top of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album sales for the week and cumulatively selling 40,000 copies, and the infamous Tory Lanez charts his new album at 19.

Tory Lanez Charts 2nd Album, But Adele's No. 1 For 4th Week

By FYI Staff

Adele’s 30 spends its fourth straight week at the top of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album sales for the week. Cumulatively,, 30 has surpassed 10,000 units sold in each of its four weeks of release.


Michael Buble’s Christmas remains at No. 2 with the second highest on-demand stream total for the week.

The top debut belongs to the latest posthumous album from Juice WRLD. Fighting Demons enters at No. 3 with the highest on-demand streams for the week. It is the follow-up to his second straight No. 1 album, Legends Never Die.

Ed Sheeran’s = holds at 4 and Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) falls to No. 5.

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Two more new releases enter the top 30: Tory Lanez’s Alone At Prom lands at 19, his second charting album of 2021, following the No. 56 Playboy in March; and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s B4 AVA comes in at 24–his first charted release since Artist 2.0 reached No. 4 in February 2020.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch

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Amber Still, executive director of the Polaris Music Prize

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